Background
Stycos, Joseph Mayone was born on March 27, 1927 in Saugerties, New York, United States. Son of Stravos and Clotilda (Mayone) Stycos.
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Joseph Mayone Stycos
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AB, Princeton University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1954.
Career
WithBur. Applied Social Research Columbia University, 1948-1950, lecturer sociology, 1951-1952. Project co-director University Puerto Rico, 1952-1953. Postgraduate PC fellow University North Carolina, 1954-1955.
Associate professor sociology St. Lawrence University, 1955-1957. Faculty Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1957-2000, professor emertius, 2000, professor sociology New York, since 1963, chairman department, 1966-1970, director Latin American program, 1962-1966, director international population program, 1962-1988, professor rural sociology, 1987-2001, director population and development program, 1988-1992. Fulbright-Hayes Distinguished professor University Warsaw, Poland, 1979.
External examiner University Ife, Nigeria, 1973. Consultant Agency for International Development, 1962-1964. Senior consultant Population Council, 1963-1974, 77-79.
Consultant Airlie Foundation, 1972-1973, Institute for Research in Social Behavior, 1974, Clapp & Mayne, Inc., 1974, Ford-Rockefeller Population Program, 1977, National University Costa Rica, 1979, University Puerto Rico, 1979. Trustee Population Reference Bureau, 1964-1968, consultant, 1968-1974. Member executive committee International Planned Parenthood Federation, West Hemmis, 1965-1971, consultant, 1971-1977.
Advisory committee population and development Organization of American States, 1968-1970. Member board Population Association American, 1968-1971, editorial consultant demography, 1965-1969. Advisory panel population National Institute Child Health and Human Development, Department Health, Education and Welfare, 1969.
Co-chairman population task force United States National Commission for United Nations Educational, 1972-1973. Advisory council, interdisciplinary communications program Smithsonian Institution, 1974-1976. Consultant Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, 1975.
Consultant steering committee, acceptability task force World Health Organization, 1978-1985. Consultant United Nations Educational, 1978-1979, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 1979-1982, World Health Organization, 1987-1990. Co-director Spanish family life project University Complutense de Madrid, 1978-1980.
International advisory council International Center Photography, 1979-1995. Fulbright-Hays professor National University Costa Rica, spring 1986. Chairman United States Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics, 1983-1984.
Member Fulbright-Hays program National Screening Committee Center American, 1989-1992. Population research team Environmental & Natural Resources Policy & Training Project, 1992-1996. Planning committee Global Omnibus Environmental Survey (GOES) Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program, since 1993, chair, 1996-1997.
Achievements
Membership
Member council Cornell University, 1969-1970. Member Rural Sociological Society, Population Association of America, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
Connections
Married Maria Nowakowska, November 25, 1964. Children: Steven Andrew, Christina Mayone (by previous marriage), Marek.
